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hi sim, glad to hear from you again! i saw your post about doodle requests. i'm putting together a magical girl-themed ttrpg for a bunch of friends and my sibling, so i have them on the brain. may i please request that you draw your favorite magical girl? mine's sailor pluto

Y’know I haven’t seen a whole lot of magical girl media but I do love the trope and your ttrpg sounds excellent

heres the lil duck who could

#I can’t remember too much about princess tutu but i remember liking it #Doodle

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libra-meyer

Look up a Twiddletoad. Draw that

I assume this thing is a ‘toad’ in the same way mountain chicken is ‘chicken’

#I probably should’ve known dnd would have a scrunglo edition #Doodle

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Things’re slowing down a bit so I’m celebrating with open doodle requests 👉👉

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Happy birthday to everyone born on this elusive date; I hope you enjoy your brief stay in our time-stream before heading back to your own mysterious dimension!

#Art #pixel animation #im sorry if the frog imagery is hackneyed but I wanted to see if I could animate one

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Dr Aery face reveal???

I mean, face is a bit of a stretch, but sure

#Doodle #body horror #again just to be safe. Bees and such

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blips you and those Beautiful Eyes of his.....................

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#Doodle #body horror #just to be safe #Blipsyou

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libra-meyer

Your favorite Sherlock Holmes

The little Belgian one with the exquisite moustaches and the adorable sidekick

#Doodle #idk what it is about doodle requests that makes people clairvoyant #But I am currently rewatching the david suchet tv series and having a blast

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cheerycheesecake

your favorite bug!

Hemaris Thysbe, aka the clearwing hummingbird moth

it’s hard to choose a favourite bug, but I consider this one my ‘bugsona’ of sorts

#Doodles

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Gonna go ‘head and offer doodle requests again 👉👉

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Welp, after deleting half my tracks accidentally, rerecording them from scratch and floundering around helplessly in the mixing department, I can finally present to you all this holiday themed nutrient enriched lemon loaf. Of love. (or something like that)

Happy Valentines everybody 👉👉

Instruments used:

Accordion

Acoustic bass guitar

Acoustic guitar

Cheap xylophone

Melodica (with the broken key that needs to be held up unless you want everything to be a chord with e flat)

Percussion kindly provided by Garageband and my hands

Ukulele

#tunes #lemon demon #lemon demon cover #white bread boyfriend #the mix is... questionable but i wanted to get it out today #is this song in my vocal range?? almost!

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gonna be real with you guys I’m pretty bummed

#I can salvage but I’m holdin it together

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ok campers

rise and shine

and don’t forget your booties, cause

it’s cooooooooooold out there

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if you're not busy, could we learn more about Benjamin and Dylan Livright? Thank you!

As you wish 👉👉

These are the Livwrights; a normal American family living in the suburbs. Of course, appearances are only skin deep. 

Benjamin Livwright: The workaholic father of the Livwrights. Ben slaves away at his desk job, convinced that the hard working American really can make something of himself —or at least earn his living— a viewpoint resulting from generational trauma inflicted by his own father. He wants nothing more than to provide for his family, but his manner of doing so is far from healthy. 

While he comes off as a distant, unsympathetic father due to his disapproval of his son’s hobbies, his heart is in the right place.

He worries for his son’s wellbeing, afraid that the boy will be disillusioned—and even harmed— if he pursues his aspirations to become a musician. Unfortunately, as so often is the case, his worry manifests as anger. 

The viewpoint character of the song I Earn My Life, caricatured by his son in As Your Father I Expressly Forbid It

Works at The Company, a weirdly nondescript business owned by Mr. Morimichi (of Man-Made Object). Technically a coworker of Mr. Wolfgang, but thankfully not on the same floor.

Very sensitive about his receding hairline.

Has a curious affinity with the Antfolk of Spiral of Ants; so much so that after an encounter with the spiral (from which he rescues his son) he is permanently partially mutated into an ant person. It’s ok though. Tbh he’s a lot healthier for it, and his wife and son don’t mind.

Ironically, he was briefly part of a band in his youth. His father put a stop to it very quickly. 

Mary Livwright: Benjamin’s wife and Dylan’s mother. Homemaker. In her spare time, she likes to paint landscapes, but she doesn’t have much time for that. She mainly focuses on keeping the house spotless (perhaps as a coping mechanism more than anything) to avoid adding any unnecessary conflict to the feud between her husband and son. Mary puts on a brave face and plays the diplomat, but inside she’s terrified that her family will fall apart at any second. She desperately wants to help her husband and son reconcile, but to her distress, she isn’t sure how.

Suffers from anxiety 

The ‘wife’ mentioned in I Earn My Life— she does indeed hear her husband’s justifications a lot. 

Has a Bachelor of Arts in Painting

Uncannily good at strategy games 

Dylan Livwright: Ben and Mary’s son. Dylan is a clever young man with a passion for music. He wants nothing more than to become a guitarist and produce his own songs, a goal that puts him at odds with his father. A fairly typical grouchy teenager with all the sarcastic, ungrateful trappings. However, Dylan is also quite sensitive, artistic, and responsible. As much as he hates his father’s lack of attention and approval, he still loves him and wants to make him proud. 

Dylan is the in-universe author of a number of songs including As Your Father I Expressly Forbid It, Being a Rockstar, Go To Hollywood and Ancient Aliens.

Met professor Callenbach through a community service program. Callenbach eventually trusted him enough to befriend, and now Dylan plays the McFly to his Doc Brown. 

Dylan proves to be instrumental to Callenbach’s attempts to contact the mysterious MC, as his musical talents are capable of properly fueling and calibrating the prof’s tone-powered communication machine. 

Dylan lives in the same neighborhood as and is friends with the Moulinet boys despite being a few years older. He later helps Eugene figure out how to mix music. 

Refuses to cut his hair short no matter what his dad says. Eventually starts wearing it in a ponytail, though. 

Kenneth Livwright: The overbearing patriarch of the Livwright family. A retired investment banker and former business man with rather traditional values. He visits his son occasionally to keep an eye on how he’s doing, and to correct him if he’s getting off track.

Probably one of the most unsympathetic characters. Good thing he’s barely there. 

The family as a whole:

The whole family is in this weird temporal aesthetic range of 50s to 80s to ‘00s; mainly due to the vibe I get from their situation. Hopefully it isn’t too jarring. 

Benjamin’s ancestry is Danish, as a nod to Hans Christian Andersen, author of The Little Mermaid, which provided the partial inspiration for As Your Father I Expressly Forbid It (according to the commentary) 

The whole family has punny/symbolic names, of course, starting with the surname which is a corrupting of ‘live right’; something the family is constantly trying to do. 

Benjamin: short form ‘Ben’ means ‘son of’, as Ben’s life is completely dominated by his own father. In full, a corruption of ‘been living right’, which he is convinced he is doing. 

Mary: homophone of marry, because her only mention in the actual music is as the wife of the singer. Also homophone of ‘merry’, as she’s the most cheerful of the Livwrights (outwardly, at least). And finally, depending on the etymology, can relate to the sea, which goes back to the little mermaid references, and also her son because…

Dylan: meaning ‘born of the sea’. Initially chosen as a corruption of ‘didn’t live right’, but also as a nod to the Little Mermaid. Also provides symbolic opposition to his grandfathers influence, as his name is…

Kenneth: etymologically related to fire. Also a corruption of ‘Can live right’ in its short form Ken, and a corruption of ‘cannot live right’ in its full form, for obvious reasons. 

#Ask #took a while but hope you enjoy 👉👉

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another trip around the sun! Wishing you all the best ♥️

#Happy new year 👉👉

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Can we please get the kid from action movie hero boy? It’s my comfort song

Sure thing anon: meet Bradley Moulinet

Short and chubby, ten years old and brimming with so much 90’s attitude that his baseball cap had to flip around backwards. An Xtreme little dude, he often comes off as loud-mouthed and crass and tends to get easily carried away when excited, but also has a soft spot for animals and a tender nature deep down. He likes to adventure, play video games, skateboard and be the bratty half-pint foil to his older half-brother Eugene.

Other than Action Movie Hero Boy, he also stars in The Afternoon, Dead Sea Monkeys and shares Knife Fight with his brother.

goes by Brad

Basically the embodiment of the cool nineties kid- though he also fills the annoying-younger-sibling trope. Though he gets on his brother’s nerves and picks on him for being a huge nerd, the Moulinet boys love each other very much and value their sibling bond immensely.

Loves all the stereotypically icky creatures; creepy-crawlies, frogs, snakes, lizards, shrimp, crayfish, etc.

#Ask #Things got hectic for a while but here you go heh

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the lifetime achievement award duo???? thank you

Okedoke

Dr. Herbert E. Lipzditsch & Maxine Jichael

Lore: Dr. Lipzditsch used to be a famed plastic surgeon, but he disappeared out of the blue one day for unknown reasons. Rumours swirled about the incident — there had been an accident — Lipzditsch lost his medical license — the mafia, or aliens were involved— but progress was never made towards finding the truth, and eventually the whole thing blew over. Meanwhile, Dr. Lipzditsch was far away, starting a new life and a new career as a small town mortician. Though at first he did his duty making the corpses look peaceful and presentable, Lipzditsch’s curiosity got the better of him and he began researching more in-depth ways of giving them the appearance of life… or more than that, even. Eventually, a team of agents tracked him to his new location, and though initially cornered, Lipzditsch became delighted when it turned out the men were there with a request… a request that involved the recently deceased pop idol, Maxine Jichael. Maxine was a talented singer-songwriter who flew to the top of the charts soon after she began her career. Known for being as humble as she was creative, she quickly gained an extremely dedicated fan base who hung on her every breath. Even after they stopped. During a live show, a terrible accident occurred and Maxine was horrifically crushed by a falling piece of stage equipment. The audience, and indeed the world was inconsolable. But Maxine was far too valuable to be laid to rest quite yet, and her record company was happy to provide a certain ex—plastic surgeon plenty of resources if it meant getting their star back from the grave.

Herbert E. Lipzditsch

Herb’s two songs are Modify and Lifetime Achievement Award, the former of which is set during his time as a plastic surgeon.

Herb is one of three characters within this universe that have a greenish tint to their skin, the others being his cousin Oliver Stuf (of Market Land) and the unrelated travelling children’s entertainer Bartholomew Zew (of Gadzooks, Pumpkin Pie, The Saga of You: Confused Destroyer of Worlds, The Ultimate Showdown, Jaws, etc).

Herb is named for Herbert West (the lead character of the film Re-Animator) and Ernest Menville (the tritagonist of the film Death Becomes Her). He’s also somewhat based on J.S. Steinman (from Bioshock). ‘Lipzditsch’ was me trying to cram as many consonants as i could into one German-sounding name for the fun of it. If you’re wondering, it’s pronounced ‘lips stitch’ (with a slight z to the ‘s’)

like many of these characters, Lipzditsch is the ‘affably evil’ variety of mad doctor; he’s a genuinely friendly sort of person, but his sense of ethics and morality leave much to be desired.

His cohort of sinister nurses are the CEOR staff, a number of record execs who follow him around and hold things for him while he does the real work. Their uniform looks something like a cross between a business suit and scrubs.

Maxine Jichael

Poor Maxine doesn't come back quite right and has to be reanimated several times; she is the source of the freaky laboured breathing in LTAA.

Moves stiffly and sluggishly like a zombie most of the time.

Her most devastating fatal injuries were to her hands and throat, hence the emphasis on them.

Based on a combination of the two artists mentioned in the song, Katy Perry and Michael Jackson.

in case it isn’t obvious, Maxine’s name is derived from a spoonerism of Michael Jackson (‘Jichael Mackson’). Accordingly, her last name rhymes with Michael, if the spelling is throwing you off.

#Ask #herbert n maxine here #I’ve been terribly busy lately…

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could we get lore for professor callenbach? what's his deal?

I’ve been meaning to introduce this guy, here you are

Professor Alexander Callenbach.

Lore: Initially an engineering teacher at a local university, Prof. Callenbach’s life changed when his experimental radio started picking up strange broadcasts from unknown sources. Piecing together a rudimentary theory surrounding these messages, Callenbach managed to discover a possible source: a mysterious central figure known simply as the ‘MC’. 

After increasing references to UFOlogy and paranormal phenomena began cropping up in his class lectures, Callenbach was eventually ‘forcibly retired’, and became more and more secluded. 

Convinced he was the only person who understood and cared about these possible threats to humanity, he threw himself headfirst into his preparation for various unnatural disasters, finding comfort in one particular radio show along the way…

In his early to mid sixties, but still fairly physically fit 

His dismissal from his university position was a decision made purely by the higher ups: his students generally considered him a helpful and engaging (if somewhat eccentric) professor and were sad to see him go.

His equipment kit consists of a modified portable radio and a touch-tone telephone capable of sending and receiving signals over surprisingly long distances, as well as (in theory) beyond the boundaries of our universe. Design-wise, it’s partially based on the TF2 medic’s medigun pack (a lot of my scientist characters take inspiration from the medic, actually…) and the infamous Power Glove (its so bad).

His equipment has a rudimentary form of artificial intelligence- he affectionately refers to it as ‘Toni’. 

Drives an old red Chevy pickup truck that he usually uses to cart around his heavier equipment. 

Retains his professorial demeanour and comes off surprisingly approachable and sensible (until he starts talking about ancient aliens, of course) 

He attempts to control his extreme paranoia by being prepared for every eventuality (though is a little too much of an ‘absent-minded professor’ to do so effectively.)

Accomplished violin player (if only in his spare time) 

Was probably involved in early Kirk/Spock fan fiction

Deeply admires (read: has a massive crush on) the host of Enigmatic Enigmas of Esoteric Enigmas, a radio show that only seems to broadcast on AM frequency and showcases various purported conspiracy theories, mysteries and supernatural occurrences. Callenbach eventually manages to work up the courage to call in (or rather, actually speak instead of breathing into the receiver) but he can never quite explain himself properly. The host, Morris Hammond, is quite patient with him, all things considered (possibly because he’s his only caller).

Develops an intergenerational friendship with Dylan Livwright, playing the Doc. Brown to his Marty McFly.

Is aware of numerous other supernatural characters and events, especially the Ant Folk, Cabinet Man and Sweet Bod. 

Excellent with engineering, terrible with technology. 

General appearance was probably unconsciously based on the titular character from Professor Fizwizzle, the first game little me ever encountered that let you make your own levels- what fun!

#Ask #prof Callenbach #Oh and this is touch tone telephone if it wasn’t obvious